The Roman assemblies from their origin to the end of the Republic

by George Willis Botsford

[645] Varro, L. L. vi. 91; Val. Max. iv. 5. 3; Cic. Rab. Perd. 4. 11; Wissowa, in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encycl. ii. 2585 f.

[646] Valeton, in Mnemos. xxiii (1895). 28 ff.

[647] Censoriae Tabulae, in Varro, L. L. vi. 86; Livy viii. 23. 15; x. 40. 2.

[648] The auspices had to be taken on the day the business was to be transacted, counting the day from midnight to midnight; Gell. iii. 2. 10; Consorinus xxiii. 4.

[649] Verrius, in Fest. 347. 17; Serv. in Aen. ix. 4; Statius, Theb. iii. 459. Romulus, however, stood upright; Dion. Hall. ii. 5. 1.

[650] P. 105.

[651] Silence was essential to perfect auspices; Fest. 348. 29; ep. 64; Livy viii. 23. 15; ix. 38. 14; x. 40. 2; Pliny, N. H. viii. 57. 223.

[652] Serv. in Aen. iii. 89; Livy i. 18. 9.

[653] Cf. Livy xli. 18. 14.

[654] Cf. Livy ix. 38. 15; 39. 1.